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Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) provide a unique probe of the three-dimensional spin structure of hadrons. We construct spin-dependent quasi-TMDPDFs that are amenable to lattice QCD calculations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-02 Markus A. Ebert , Stella T. Schindler , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the transversity isovector- and isoscalar-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton utilizing a perturbative matching at next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy. Additionally, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-25 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Qi Shi , Sergey Syritsyn , Yong Zhao

We extract new parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton by global analysis of hard scattering data in the general-mass framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Our analysis includes new theoretical developments together…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Hung-Liang Lai , Marco Guzzi , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , C. -P. Yuan

We investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large parton momentum fractions x in the context of global QCD analysis. We explore the constraints from existing deep-inelastic scattering data, and from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Jimenez-Delgado , H. Avakian , W. Melnitchouk

We present PDFFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. PDFs are essential for the calculation of particle physics observables through Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Stefano Carrazza , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Marco Rossi

The comparative analysis of different sets of the parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the description of the whole sets of experimental data of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron, is made in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 O. V. Selyugin

We introduce the Hessian reweighting of parton distribution functions (PDFs). Similarly to the better-known Bayesian methods, its purpose is to address the compatibility of new data and the quantitative modifications they induce within an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Hannu Paukkunen , Pia Zurita

We demonstrate a new method of extracting parton distributions from lattice calculations. The starting idea is to treat the generic equal-time matrix element ${\cal M} (Pz_3, z_3^2)$ as a function of the Ioffe time $\nu = Pz_3$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-30 Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , Joseph Karpie , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We study the role of the $Z/\gamma$-interference parton distribution function (PDF) in high-energy muon colliders. We review how this PDF emerges when electroweak interactions are applied to the collinear splitting process and show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 David Marzocca , Alfredo Stanzione

We have presented the results of our next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) [Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 014026, arXiv:1601.00939 [hep-ph]] using all available neutral current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 S. Atashbar Tehrani

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

Quantum computing offers the promise of speedups for scientific computations, but its application to reacting flows is hindered by nonlinear source terms, the challenges of time-dependent simulations, and the difficulty of extracting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jizhi Zhang , Ziang Yang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

We present a new set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) based on a fully global dataset and machine learning techniques: NNPDF4.0. We expand the NNPDF3.1 determination with 44 new datasets, mostly from the LHC. We derive a novel…

The valence quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of all ground state heavy mesons that composed of $b$ or $c$ quarks, are discussed; namely, the pseudoscalar $\eta_c(1S)$, $\eta_b(1S)$ and $B_c$, together with the corresponding vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Qian Wu , Zhu-Fang Cui , Jorge Segovia

We study the cross section \sigma and Forward-Backward asymmetry A_{FB} in the process pp \to \gamma^*,Z \to \ell^+\ell^- (with \ell=e,\mu) for determinations of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton. We show that, once mapped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 E. Accomando , J. Fiaschi , F. Hautmann , S. Moretti

For a long time, lattice QCD was unable to address the $x$-dependence of partonic distributions, direct access to which is impossible in Euclidean spacetime. Recent years have brought a breakthrough for such calculations when it was…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-16 Krzysztof Cichy

It has been found in recent heavy-ion experiments that the second and the third flow harmonics of direct photons are larger than most theoretical predictions. In this study, I construct effective parton phase-space distributions with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-22 Akihiko Monnai

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) provides the only known systematic, nonperturbative method for first-principles calculations of nucleon structure. However, for quantities such as lightfront parton distribution functions (PDFs) and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-07-19 Raúl A. Briceño , Maxwell T. Hansen , Christopher J. Monahan

We present the first lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculation of the pion valence-quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) within the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET). Using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-09 Dennis Bollweg , Xiang Gao , Jinchen He , Swagato Mukherjee , Yong Zhao

The determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton will be an essential input for the physics program of a future 100 TeV hadron collider. The unprecedented center-of-mass energy will require knowledge of PDFs in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-27 Juan Rojo